How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the America

[Rex B]

Abstract:
This Article chronologically reviews the British gun control which precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gun powder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gun powder, from individuals and from local governments; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events which changed a situation of rising political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment

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[wharvey]

What would be an interesting study is why our ancestors took the course they did and yet other British subjects took the course they did. Wonder how much living in a new wild world instead of a more settled "civilized" world had to do with it. Possibly the environment led to more self reliant and independent thinking people instead of the sub-servant ones some of us have become.

[Rex B]

It might have had much to do with the sort of individuals who would choose to make the journey, forsake all their family and friends to start a new life in a verdant wilderness. That sort of person makes their own decisions.

[Paladin]

Just came across this. Interesting paper.

[crazy2medic]

Just came across this. Interesting paper.

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[Paladin]

Just came across this. Interesting paper.

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I just read it, an noticed it had already been posted on the forum. Good read.

[C-dub]

An interesting comparison might be USA vs. Australia. Our founders came here in search of a place to be free, while they were sent there as part of a penal colony.

EDIT: Downloaded and going in the Kindle for reading. Thanks for the link!